A midsummer night dream
A Midsummers Night’s Dream
Shakespeare is one of the most well-known playwright and poet that the world has ever produced. He’s known for his ability to recapitulate the array of human emotions in simple yet intensely expressive verse. One of Shakespeare 's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is full of intense feelings, tragic events and a happy ending.
Literature can be defined as a comedy, romance, or a tragedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream can best be defined as a comedy. In literary sense, a comedy is a work which is principally designed to amuse and entertain, and where, despite problems during the narrative, all ends well for the characters (English Literature Dictionary). The play can be proven to be a comedy because of its humorous tone. The play features fairy magic, pranks and the performance of a play within the play by a group of fairies. The play even has trickery and disguise in it as well. Hermia and Lysander try to sneak away from Athens to wed behind Egeus 's back. Also, Titania and the young lovers have no idea they 've been dazed by Oberon by the love-in-idleness flowers juice. These examples given are what put A Midsummers Night’s Dream under the literature category of a comedy.
A romance is traditionally, a long fictional prose narrative about unlikely events involving characters that are very different from ordinary people. Nowadays the modern romance novel is a prescribed love story, where boy meets girl, obstacles get in the way, they are then overcome and the couple live happily ever after (English Literature Dictionary).A Midsummers Night’s Dream could also fit into this category because of the fairies that are in it. In the play the fairies experience unlikely events, like Titania falling in love with Bottom as he as the head of an ass. Another way the play could fit into this category would be how Hermia and Lysander are in love and are forbidden to be married. At the end of the play the obstacle of them not being able to
Shakespeare is one of the most well-known playwright and poet that the world has ever produced. He’s known for his ability to recapitulate the array of human emotions in simple yet intensely expressive verse. One of Shakespeare 's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is full of intense feelings, tragic events and a happy ending.
Literature can be defined as a comedy, romance, or a tragedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream can best be defined as a comedy. In literary sense, a comedy is a work which is principally designed to amuse and entertain, and where, despite problems during the narrative, all ends well for the characters (English Literature Dictionary). The play can be proven to be a comedy because of its humorous tone. The play features fairy magic, pranks and the performance of a play within the play by a group of fairies. The play even has trickery and disguise in it as well. Hermia and Lysander try to sneak away from Athens to wed behind Egeus 's back. Also, Titania and the young lovers have no idea they 've been dazed by Oberon by the love-in-idleness flowers juice. These examples given are what put A Midsummers Night’s Dream under the literature category of a comedy.
A romance is traditionally, a long fictional prose narrative about unlikely events involving characters that are very different from ordinary people. Nowadays the modern romance novel is a prescribed love story, where boy meets girl, obstacles get in the way, they are then overcome and the couple live happily ever after (English Literature Dictionary).A Midsummers Night’s Dream could also fit into this category because of the fairies that are in it. In the play the fairies experience unlikely events, like Titania falling in love with Bottom as he as the head of an ass. Another way the play could fit into this category would be how Hermia and Lysander are in love and are forbidden to be married. At the end of the play the obstacle of them not being able to
Cited: “English Literature Dictionary”. itseducation.asia. Education Asia.ND.Web.14 June 2014